Truth. I was the coat check girl in a gay bar in NYC. People I knew died. Many more ran buyer's clubs and everyone worked the phone trees to try to get information out about what treatment seemed to help and which were literal poison. It was all very underground and people had legitimate fears for their safety if they spoke out about what was going on with AZT and other killer treatments. There were some very public rallies and demonstrations against Fauxi but mostly it was hush-hush social networking. That time period marks the beginning of my deep distrust of the medical establishment and pharma industry.